ALX vs. BFS, ROIC, AKR, SKT, MAC, MFA, UMH, CIM, FBRT, and PGRE
Should you be buying Alexander's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alexander's include Saul Centers (BFS), Retail Opportunity Investments (ROIC), Acadia Realty Trust (AKR), Tanger (SKT), Macerich (MAC), MFA Financial (MFA), UMH Properties (UMH), Chimera Investment (CIM), Franklin BSP Realty Trust (FBRT), and Paramount Group (PGRE). These companies are all part of the "real estate investment trusts" industry.
Alexander's (NYSE:ALX) and Saul Centers (NYSE:BFS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk and community ranking.
In the previous week, Saul Centers had 7 more articles in the media than Alexander's. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Saul Centers and 5 mentions for Alexander's. Saul Centers' average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat Alexander's' score of -0.37 indicating that Saul Centers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
32.0% of Alexander's shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.0% of Saul Centers shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.3% of Alexander's shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 56.6% of Saul Centers shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Alexander's has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Saul Centers. Alexander's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Saul Centers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alexander's has a net margin of 45.97% compared to Saul Centers' net margin of 20.25%. Alexander's' return on equity of 43.56% beat Saul Centers' return on equity.
Alexander's has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Saul Centers has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alexander's presently has a consensus target price of $145.00, suggesting a potential downside of 33.99%. Saul Centers has a consensus target price of $43.50, suggesting a potential upside of 14.17%. Given Saul Centers' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Saul Centers is more favorable than Alexander's.
Saul Centers received 129 more outperform votes than Alexander's when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.27% of users gave Alexander's an outperform vote while only 53.91% of users gave Saul Centers an outperform vote.
Alexander's pays an annual dividend of $18.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.2%. Saul Centers pays an annual dividend of $2.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. Alexander's pays out 86.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Saul Centers pays out 136.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Alexander's is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Saul Centers beats Alexander's on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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